Don't know whether to be excited or petrified for this one.....
Investing in the young characters is long overdue, given we all know how much the investment paid off for David, Sarah and Todd and similar characters back in the early 2000s with all becoming fixtures for many years on and off afterwards and actors seeming more willing to hold the role and return to it than underused characters.
That said it's going to be a 'tragic' 'hard-hitting' 'social responsibility' storyline - which means it's going to be fucking miserable in Corrie speak, there's a myriad of things it could be, but I really hope it's something original rather than the same old drugs and sexuality story-lines.
Posting due to the BIB, looks very likely to dominate 2020 - and if it's being released this year presumably the first half of the year.
There's suspicious lack of mention of Dev in this article? Where is he in all of this, given it's his kids involved? Could Dev kill himself over his financial worries - leaving Asha and Adi parentless? Would explain Roy's involvement - could be him returning to Hayley and Roy 'father of the lost souls' and attempting to adopt them?
He told Mirror Online and other publications last week: "We've got a huge story next year, for which we're laying the groundwork for this year, which involves some of the younger characters such as your Asha and your Nina and your Adi and Kelly - some may remember Kelly who is loan shark Rick Neelan's daughter.
"They're going to be stuck in a story that is incredibly hard-hitting and will have massive ramifications for Roy and for Abi.
"So yeah, essentially it will be one of the biggest things we'll do next year by some margin.
"It will be one of our quite serious social responsibility-type stories. It will start with the teens and then end up hoovering in Abi and Roy and countless other people as well.
"It would be weird to say that I'm excited about it because it's incredibly sad and tragic, in some respects, but it will be a really important story for us next year."
Apparently it will end up involving Roy and Abi or even other characters so could be related to drugs or similar, but hopefully something more imaginative.
Soap boss Iain MacLeod confirmed that the hard-hitting Corrie storyline, which will involve Asha, Adi and Kelly, will air next year
www.irishmirror.ie